When Trump called for Comey to be "fired" was it a call for assasination?

Donald Trump's key phrase is "you are fired". He said we need to fire lots of people in every rally. The word "fire" is associated with firing a gun at someone. Trump is not the only one. its constant to fire Biden, fire Obama etc etc.

Is every Maga (including Trump) asking for an assasination every time they uses the word "fire". Thinking 86 is a request for assasination is by far the stupidest thing maga has come up with to try to support Trump in seeking his revenge against everyone who does not like him or has exposed any of his many many lies.

Please Joe Biden Use the Pardon Power to prevent Retribution

Joe Biden can actually protect some of Trump's promised retribution by broad use of the Pardon Power. Hopefully, even the Republicans will acknowledge his ability to do that.

He can clearly pardon Jack Smith, Adam Shiff, Pelosi and everyone involved in any prosecution of Trump or identified by Trump in any rally or interview as a target of his grievance or retribution. This will not solve every issue but these people need protection.

I have not seen this mentioned in the news. Hopefully the administration is already thinking on these lines but if not and anyone knows someone in the white house, please pass it on.

What can Trump do for Midwest if Elon wants to replace all of the auto workers with robots

It should be effective to attack Trump in the Midwest directly on economy.

All republicans get labeled as "tax cuts for billionaires" which has some effectiveness. Republican rheteoric answers with "the rich give they jobs" and other specious claims. Ultimately the Republicans claim that giving the rich "trickles down" to workers creating jobs.

However, in this particular election Democrats have a perfect counter since the billionaires including Musk specifically want to replace human jobs with Robots so an ad can hit on this and ask what exactly will Trump do for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/23/elon-musk-tesla-humanoid-robots-optimus

Gym is a bad Republican. He forgot to claim fraud in the speaker vote and that he actually won (NT)

Anyone remember (after court cases) where Trump answered question on one more thing he could do?

I remember him being interviewed or answering a question at a press conference where he stated that there was one more action he could take other than judicial actions but something like "he didnt want to do that (paraphrasing)" or language like that. Does anyone remember what that was from? It would seem to prove intention as to creating an insurrection and martial law since he said it was if courts did not act.

Republicans. Two Options: Do your duty or resign.

In the news and discussion is republicans excusing their members who did not act to quell the lies about the election or Trump generally as a fear of retribution including physical harm to their families.

We can all understand the pressure on such republicans since it was coming from their own party. However, in response to the perceived threats, there are only 2 choices, not 3 choices. If they were too scared to do their duty and fight the lies coming from the leadership of their party and Trump, then the only option was to resign. They can not use threats to justify doing nothing to quell the lies.

What to you expect if you base a political movement on "Government being the enemy"

This did not start with Trump. It did not even start with Reagan although I think you can trace the current Republican party to the birth of Reaganism and telling Republican supporters that Government is the enemy.

If government is the enemy, or you believe it, and you have a religious intensity, you can understand why these republicans can both attack the US government and think themselves patriots. This is compounded by embedding this anti government belief with a belief that you are actually fighting Satan in the form of democrats. Not all (especially the cynical Republican Senators) believe that, but many of these people actually believe they are fighting Satan. If you believe that Democrats are satanic pedifiles, any action you take would be justified to prevent such satanists from taking power even if you take illegal actions or act against the plain meaning of the constitution.

This is what we are fighting and the people who believe this are beyond direct communication because any argument from us will be satanic lies. What we have to do is fight the knowing enabliers, make the true believers understand that the people telling them lies are liars, frauds and con men. The trick will be to find a way to do this without them believing that an attack on Cruz or any other Republican senator is just another satanic trick.

Hey GOP. If you dont like the way Pennsylvania votes. Dont move there. (NT)

Hey GOP, if you dont like the way Arizona votes. Dont move there.

I hope that every one of the traitors in the house and senate get constant redicule the rest of their lives when they venture into the public.

Loads of Irregularities in the GOP Conduct

The GOP is all over the word "irregularity" There are ways to respond that turn the word on them and should be used anytime a politician or outraged trump supporter mentions irregularities. Feel free to add to the list.

It is not irregular for people to be disappointed if they lose an election, it is irregular not to concede when you lost.

It is not irregular for losing candidates to ask for recounts. However, it is irregular to ask for recounts when the election is not close.
Further, it is highly irregular for candidates to factually challenge the results of the recount and not concede when the recount establishes that yes you did, in fact, lose.

It is not irregular (although divisive) for supporters of a candidate to refer to the right to go to court or claim that a candidate still has legal rights. It is irregular for anyone to continue to claim that anyone who filed and lost over 50 cases in a month has not had his day in court or not already exercised his or her legal rights.

Then there is a whole list of pure irregularities.

It is irregular for a candidate to pursue "overturning" an election. You only overturn what you have lost.
It is irregular for a remedy in voting to claim you win by only disenfranchising your opponents votes.
It is irregular for a state attorney general to file a case challenging another state's election laws.
It is irregular to challenge a presidential election at the county, state, or federal level after the vote counts have been certified at these levels.
It is irregular to hint that you may not leave the white house.
It is irregular in the lame duck 2 months after losing an election, to change the heads of multiple agencies and cabinet positions including the departments of defense and justice since they are going to be changed anyhow 2 months later.
Finally, it is most irregular for public servants in the house and senate to act against their oaths of office, not acknowledge reality, and act to increase divisions in a country by silence and making public lies only to avoid the wrath of a losing candidate with a temper tantrum who has had his vote, his recount and his day in court.

In particular that last irregularity should be shoved into the face of every representative and senator who continues to weasel and say there were "irregularities"

Compare him to George Washington with respect to peaceful transitions and Trump thinks he knows more

I realize it is pretty late in the campaign but Joe's debate line about Trump thinks he is Abe Lincoln which was effective made me thing of something even more topical and effective if used in a speech by surrogates.

Rather than reference Trump's hubris in thinking he is Abraham Lincoln. Attack him with a comparison to George Washington.

A line of attack like "Trump thinks he is greater than George Washington the founder of our great democracy who established the principle of peaceful and accepted transfer of power in our elections. This has been followed by every candidate up to Trump who refuses to consent to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses. Trump has the hubris to think he is greater and smarter than George Washington, the founder of our country and every other great president who has led since then. Is this the type of egocentric person who should lead an electoral democracy."

If anyone is connected to Joe Biden's campaign and can run this line of attack to him, would be appreciated. I think it is the right comparison.